As others have said, what you're buying here (the base game) is a big, fat nothing burger... The meat is sold to you in the form of DLC and we're not talking £2 per route or whatever. Just look at the prices of the DLCs... It's complete madness. The greed is through the roof.

What slither of game there is here is... Well, you drive trains. Choo-choo. But again, 99% of the game is inaccessible if you don't surrender your wallet to these extortionists. They make, for example (because there are many others), EA look saintly in comparison.

Not worth buying anyhow. Actually, I only purchased it originally because I heard there was mods which in my mind meant that I wouldn't need to buy any DLC. I was wrong. See the deal is usually you need DLC for a mod but that DLC also requires a completely different DLC. You need DLC for your DLC... Some of which are no longer available to purchase, apparently.

Some fans or defenders of this game and it's monetisation liken it to purchasing physical train sets and all that fluff which can be pricey but I think there's a massive, obvious difference between something physical and something digital. The same problem that exists with physical media vs digital media. The question of ownership and being able to physically hold in your hands the thing that you supposedly own.

It's like saying well, uhh, WW2 re-enacting costs a lot of money for period replica uniforms, insignias, blank firing ammo, etc, so we should charge the equivalent for MTX skins in our WW2 game over here and make players buy every piece individually for £10+ a pop. Oh, better not give them any bright ideas, huh.

I'm a big simulator fan in general. So this Train Simulator Classic fits the bill for me.

misto